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Don't Give Up

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Interesting Times10/07/2018 4:08:20 pm PDT

Okay, here’s my $.02 to address, in general, all the maximum-doomer scenarios. First:

1) If 100% of US elections were hopelessly and utterly compromised, why did Dems win so many of them, esp. the Senate race in Ala-frigging-bama?

2) Remember the first significant post-trump electoral wins, i.e. the Virginia elections last year? GOPer turnout was higher than it had been when McDonnell won back in 2009, but they lost due to the massive increase in Dem turnout.

3) Even Sarah Kendzior - hardly the sunny optimist by anyone’s standards - says that overwhelming turnout is the only way to overcome all the various forms of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and Russian fuckery. And she still advises fighting even when a loss looks almost certain.